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guinness and eggs - is it true?

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swedeheart | 16:54 Sun 12th Dec 2010 | Science
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I saw some friends the other week and we were talking about nutritional matters. One of them told a story of the kind that is sometimes true and sometimes not-so-true. It was about an old man in Wales who sustained himself solely on Guinness and on eggs from his own, few hens. His neighbours were worried about him and had a nurse talk him into coming in for some tests. When they came back, his results were the best they had ever seen (for his age group, I take it).

Anyone actually recognise the story as a true one? And, if not, could it still have been true?
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It depends what they were testing. If it were his stools I can well believe it.
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There's a link here about footballers being sustained by Guinness and a raw egg - bleah. http://www.lancasterg...d_a_raw_egg_1_1171784
Is that a prairie oyster boxy.
Old hangover cure (never tried it)
No gran, that's this
A drink touted as a hangover treatment consisting of a raw egg, Worcester sauce, hot sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper. These ingredients are combined in a glass and swallowed in one gulp.

(There is also another meaning for prairie oyster I found out, bull's bits.... I don't think you meant that one!)
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That sounds delish. Mightn't cure the hangover but sure to do wonders for the constipation.
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His name is Taff Thomas and at the age of 96 still manages his Sheep Farm in the hills above the Town of Baaaaargoed South Wales. He was once arrested for Bigamy.
Any Sheep Farmer in Wales with more than one Sheep is known as a Bigamist.
He drinks his Guiness with raw eggs in it every night at a Pub called 'Look Ewe ere'.
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Yes L33, I didn't mean to imply that this was the footballers' only diet, it was an addition.
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keep'em coming, you scientifically minded ABers you;-)
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No link it's just something a friend said.
Mae'n dda gennyf fy mod i ddim yn Gymro ar hyn o bryd!
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Good list L33tsp34k3I2, maybe a nutritionist among the ABers may be able to tell us what may be missing from it.
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